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eric, what's it like there this evening? >> reporter: it is swampy out here, lester, that is for sure. dewpoints near 80. that is downright tropical. everyone was dealing with it in the minneapolis/st. paul area. we just began what will be the first heat wave here in this city. heat index values topped out around 150 degrees. that's what it actually feels like for your body to be out. dangerous conditions for anyone who's spending extended amounts of time outdoors. and we certainly were not alone. take a look across the country. anywhere from the high plains down to the gulf coast, even right now as we speak, heat index values between 100 and 120 degrees. for some this is new. for some this is an ongoing problem. but is it going to change? as we head forward into the next week, big area of high pressure centered right in the middle of america is slowly going to shift off to the east. that will bring heat back to the mid-atlantic, down to the deep south and into the carolinas as well. we'll see a little relief in the twin cit
eric, what's it like there this evening? >> reporter: it is swampy out here, lester, that is for sure. dewpoints near 80. that is downright tropical. everyone was dealing with it in the minneapolis/st. paul area. we just began what will be the first heat wave here in this city. heat index values topped out around 150 degrees. that's what it actually feels like for your body to be out. dangerous conditions for anyone who's spending extended amounts of time outdoors. and we certainly were...
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house majority leader eric cantor speaks out. >>> now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and much more. i'm veronica de la cruz. thank you so much for watching "early today." just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a terrific thursday. [ male announcer ] you don't make the world's best chicken by pressing a button. it takes a cook. we're kfc and we've got a certified cook in every restaurant freshly making the colonel's original recipe, today and every day. 11 herbs and spices, hand-breaded, hands down the world's best chicken. today is a kfc day. so bring home a real meal -- 10 pieces of that famous chicken, 3 large sides and 6 biscuits. enoued a family of four or more, just 20 bucks. today tastes so good.
house majority leader eric cantor speaks out. >>> now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and much more. i'm veronica de la cruz. thank you so much for watching "early today." just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a terrific thursday. [ male announcer ] you don't make the world's best chicken by pressing a button. it takes a cook. we're kfc and we've got a certified cook in every restaurant freshly making the colonel's...
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>> reporter: donnelley's family is one of the seven they hope is alive, he was fishing aboard the "eric" and it capsized off the sea of considrtez. >> the water was warm and waves no more than a foot tall. ideal conditions to go out there. >> reporter: they're searching first with a chopper and then hercules plane out of sacramento. >> our hopes is that they have found themselves on an island. >> reporter: another group is hopeful. pete and his friend managed to drift for 13 hours before rescue. for them, too, the nightmare is not over. >> he's okay. the other seven are okay that are in his group. they're worried about russ, who hasn't been found yet. >> reporter: for lee of san martine, fishing will never be the same, the one friend who died was his friend of more than 40 years, leslie ye, and something his son-in-law knows will weigh heavily. >> pretty much everyone on that boat was either a family member or close friend he's known at least 20 years plus. >> reporter: the u.s. coast guard does confirm the search has widened and moved farther south from san philippe, because of the cur
>> reporter: donnelley's family is one of the seven they hope is alive, he was fishing aboard the "eric" and it capsized off the sea of considrtez. >> the water was warm and waves no more than a foot tall. ideal conditions to go out there. >> reporter: they're searching first with a chopper and then hercules plane out of sacramento. >> our hopes is that they have found themselves on an island. >> reporter: another group is hopeful. pete and his friend...
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. >> eric holt said it was just about 11:15 when the shooting began. when it was over, at least two bullets had entered his apartment, one hitting his 11-year-old niece, linda, in the chest. >> it's about waist high from indoors. so if she's a child, it reached the shoulder near the lung and went through her, exited her and went through the wall. >> reporter: holt immediately called 911 and huddled with the girl in a windowless hallway waiting for police to arrive, trying to keep the girl calm. >> she was -- she talked to me all the time while she was shot until the ambulance arrived. i told her to keep calm but stay awake. she didn't cry. she just said i'm shot. am i going to die? >> reporter: police took three people into custody right after the shooting and have since arrested two of them, an 18 and 19-year-old. no word yet on just what sparked the argument that led to the gunfire, but holt, who has lived in the neighborhood for nine years, says the crime has him ready to leave this public housing unit. he has tried before. >> i didn't know what to
. >> eric holt said it was just about 11:15 when the shooting began. when it was over, at least two bullets had entered his apartment, one hitting his 11-year-old niece, linda, in the chest. >> it's about waist high from indoors. so if she's a child, it reached the shoulder near the lung and went through her, exited her and went through the wall. >> reporter: holt immediately called 911 and huddled with the girl in a windowless hallway waiting for police to arrive, trying to...
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eric jacobs is a shark-jumper and joins us from massachusetts. good morning, eric. good to see you. >> good morning. >> first of all, that i understand, is a basking shark, which is not a danger to humans. but did you know that when it lurked around your boat? >> i knew that once we came upon it, yes. i thought it was a great white at first, but then we realized it was a basking shark. >> and it had apparently been swimming around your boat for a while. let's get right to the question. what caused you to jump in? >> well, once we came upon it, we stayed with it for about 20 minutes, and i got really comfortable with it. and i had to get into the water. i had to feel the experience of swimming in the water with this shark. and it was the perfect situation. it came under the boat, and i jumped on top of it, i grabbed the back fin for a couple seconds. it was really slimy. i would have stayed on it for about 30 seconds, but then i was like, oh, my god, i'm in the water with great white sharks. so i swam back to the boat like michael phelps. you've never seen me swim as
eric jacobs is a shark-jumper and joins us from massachusetts. good morning, eric. good to see you. >> good morning. >> first of all, that i understand, is a basking shark, which is not a danger to humans. but did you know that when it lurked around your boat? >> i knew that once we came upon it, yes. i thought it was a great white at first, but then we realized it was a basking shark. >> and it had apparently been swimming around your boat for a while. let's get right...
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. >> reporter: after democrats suggested that house majority leader eric cantor was undercutting speaker john boehner by dominating the debt talks, the republicans put forward a united front. >> let me just say, we have been in this fight together. and any suggestion that the role that eric has played in these meetings has been anything less than helpful is just wrong. >> reporter: wall street is getting more worried. standard & poor's is now the second major credit agency to warn it might downgrade the nation's top notch credit rating if a deal isn't reached soon. treasury secretary timothy geithner has kept up his own warning saying if the debt ceiling isn't raised by august 22nd, the u.s. will default on its loan. >> we have looked at all available options and we have no may to give congress more time to solve this problem, and we're running out of time. >> reporter: president obama's speech in just a few hours we expect him to make a case that a larger deal is still possible with just a little bit of compromise. in the meantime he has given congressional leaders about 36 hours to fig
. >> reporter: after democrats suggested that house majority leader eric cantor was undercutting speaker john boehner by dominating the debt talks, the republicans put forward a united front. >> let me just say, we have been in this fight together. and any suggestion that the role that eric has played in these meetings has been anything less than helpful is just wrong. >> reporter: wall street is getting more worried. standard & poor's is now the second major credit agency...
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republican majority leader eric cantor cited the president as saying i have reached my limit. he left saying i'll see you tomorrow. the two sides couldn't even agree about what happened in the meeting. according to cantor, the president gotta agtag agitated stormed out. the aide said it was cantor who rudely interrupted the president three times. there was even rancor outside the meeting. dealing with the democrats is a lot like dealing with jell-o. the topic will be taxes and president obama has said on friday he wants lawmakers to figure out whether they want to continue to pursue this deficit reduction package or whether they want to take another course. ann? >> kristen, thanks. jim cramer, the host of "mad money." good morning. worst case scenario the deal is not reached and the us credit rating is lowered. what happens next? >> interest rates will go up because foreign countries and foreign banks, what they do is they sell any sort of sovereign bond, what our u.s. debt is called, when they see debt ratings, housing slows down and job creation definitely slows down and sto
republican majority leader eric cantor cited the president as saying i have reached my limit. he left saying i'll see you tomorrow. the two sides couldn't even agree about what happened in the meeting. according to cantor, the president gotta agtag agitated stormed out. the aide said it was cantor who rudely interrupted the president three times. there was even rancor outside the meeting. dealing with the democrats is a lot like dealing with jell-o. the topic will be taxes and president obama...
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. >> the popular targets of "the news of the world" hacking was kate middleton, mick jagger, eric clap ton, now perhaps a new low, police suspect that the paper hacked into the voice mail of 13-year-old millie dower whose abduction and murder horrified britain in 2002 while she was still missing. now it gives her family false hope she was still alive. >> there are no words to describe how awful this was. it may attempted to tap phones close to the family of madeline mccann. and the terrorist bombings, those families are learning they may have been hacked. >> we were in a dark place. they cannot be allowed to get away with what they've done. >> the prosecution of the paper and the top executives. rupert murdoch is calling the allegations deplorabldeplorable unacceptable, and it will again cooperate with the police. the reporter who served time released a statement saying there was relentless pressure, a aa constant demand for results. for an outraged british public, there is simply no excuse. >> interestingly enough, in america, we don't have this kind of journalism yet. hopefully the a
. >> the popular targets of "the news of the world" hacking was kate middleton, mick jagger, eric clap ton, now perhaps a new low, police suspect that the paper hacked into the voice mail of 13-year-old millie dower whose abduction and murder horrified britain in 2002 while she was still missing. now it gives her family false hope she was still alive. >> there are no words to describe how awful this was. it may attempted to tap phones close to the family of madeline...
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he talked about lawmakers and we know he did this last night, along with eric cantor and john collins, and the only veto line he drew was on some sort of short-term extension. if you want to read between the lines, it's what he didn't say, he didn't outline a security proposal, why? because if it were really on the table and couldn't happen, he might try not to sell it. but it looks like this middle deal is where all the action is, at least today. it was almost as if he seemed resigned that that was the target at this point, which was about a $2 trillion to 2.$2.5 trillion deal. >> the president -- has caused a number of stories today about his leadership, does he have control of his caucus, and no one should be surprised given the tea party component coming into washington, against so much of what the standing government army stands for. >> and the president said the tea party movement that swept speaker boehner into that top job is better for midterm politics than it is for governing. it was very notable how many times he praised in a muted fashion but clearly praised speaker boehne
he talked about lawmakers and we know he did this last night, along with eric cantor and john collins, and the only veto line he drew was on some sort of short-term extension. if you want to read between the lines, it's what he didn't say, he didn't outline a security proposal, why? because if it were really on the table and couldn't happen, he might try not to sell it. but it looks like this middle deal is where all the action is, at least today. it was almost as if he seemed resigned that...